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Rumours have been going around for ages that Cheryl is having her 23-year-old One Directioner boyfriend Liam Payne’s child but neither has said so publicly.

Liam hasn’t said he’s nervous but I’m sure he is

Niall Horan

But only last month Liam’s bandmate Niall Horan seemed to confirm it: “Liam hasn’t said he’s nervous but I’m sure he is. I bet he can’t wait as well. It is a very exciting thing in your life.”

Last week Cheryl’s old girlband associates Sarah Harding and Kimberley Walsh sparked speculation that she’d already had the baby.

Posting pictures of them and Cheryl from the not too distant past, some fans speculated it was their cryptic way of saying Chezza had given birth already.

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Rumours that Cheryl is having a baby with 1D boyfriend Liam Payne have been circulating for months

There’s no typecasting for Tom

Two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is to release his first book, a collection of 17 short stories titled Uncommon Type: Some Stories, each being put together on a different typewriter. (Yes, remember them?)

The 60-year-old, who is an avid collector of vintage typewriters, owning more than 100, wrote the tales all over the world: “In the two years of working on the stories I made movies in New York, Berlin, Budapest and Atlanta and wrote [in all those places].

“I wrote in hotels during press tours. I wrote on vacation… at home and in the office. When I could actually make a schedule and keep to it, I wrote in the mornings from nine to one.”

The stories, released in October, cover a range of subjects including a man who becomes famous after constantly scoring strikes while 10-pin bowling; an eccentric billionaire on the hunt for something larger in America; and an actor’s real thoughts as he promotes movies. We’re certainly looking forward to reading that last one!

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Tom Hanks will release a set of short stories later this year written on a collection of typewriters

Howard is a Dad again

Take That singer Howard Donald has become a dad for the fourth time.

The 48-year-old, who welcomed his son with wife Katie Halil on Tuesday morning, announced on Twitter 24 hours later: “Hello, Dougie Bear Donald! He’s here and he’s beautiful! He arrived yesterday morning and we are over the Pluto.”

This is a second son for the family, which already includes his and Katie’s one-year-old Bowie and daughters Grace, 18, and Lola, 12, from two previous relationships.

On Tuesday night Howard skipped the gala of bandmate Gary Barlow’s musical The Girls at London’s Phoenix Theatre, in which Day & Night were in attendance, because his wife went into labour.

Despite the happy news, Take That fans might be a tad disappointed. The baby’s arrival has cast some doubt over whether Howard will be joining Gary, Mark Owen and Robbie Williams for a planned reunion at this weekend’s finale of Let It Shine on BBC One.

Take That in concert

Wed, January 27, 2016

Mark Owen celebrates his 44th birthday on Wednesday. Have a look at him and the Take That boys in action.

Uma Thurman revealed that she regrets not taking the role of Eowyn in Lord of the Rings

Uma’s only regret

Having starred in two of Quentin Tarantino’s biggest films – as Mia Wallace in Pulp Fiction and Beatrix Kiddo in Kill Bill – you might imagine Uma Thurman to be rather pleased with her career choices to date.

That’s not necessarily the case however with the 46-year-old revealing the part she still regrets not taking is that of Eowyn in 2002’s Lord Of The Rings; The Two Towers.

“It was a very long time ago and I do consider it one of the worst decisions I ever made. But I’d just had my first child and I was a little housebound,” says the mum of three of the part that eventually went to Aussie actress Miranda Otto.

“It was a little unknown for me but it’s really definitely a regret.”

With the fantasy trilogy making an eye-watering £800million at the box office, no wonder Uma has regrets.